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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-03-27
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[01] No change in five-day shelf life for milk, ministry decides
[01] No change in five-day shelf life for milk, ministry decides
ANA-MPA -- A meeting held at the rural development and foods ministry
on Thursday to discuss proposed reforms for milk has ruled out an
extension of shelf life beyond the current five days, at least for
now. The meeting was held between Rural Development and Foods Minister
Athanassios Tsaftaris, Alternate Minister Maximos Charakopoulos and
scientists at the Hellenic Milk and Meat Organisation (ELOGAK) and the
Hellenic Agriculture Organisation (ELGO Dimitra) to discuss the shelf
life for low-temperature pasteurised milk, previously labelled 'fresh'.
Expert scientists at the meeting said that production and distribution
conditions in Greece did not permit the shelf life for milk to be extended
beyond the current five-day limit for the present. They said an increase
by one day might be marginally possible but only after the necessary
scientific data was first collected.
In statements earlier, Tsaftaris announced that the troika had
accepted the changes proposed by the government concerning milk,
which included removing the description 'fresh' from low-temperature
pasteurised milk packaging. Low-temperature pasteurised milk will be
split into two categories, one of which will be 'milk of the day' with a
shorter expiration date, in addition to the low-pasteurisation five-day
milk. Other categories of milk will be high and ultra-high temperature
(UHT) treated milk.
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